Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale's track team: the eastern indoor intercollegiate championship: 32 points to 28 for N. Y. U.; in New York. N. Y. U., needing a second place in the mile relay to win the meet, failed when Sidney Shleffar, lead-off man, dropped his baton, lost 50 yd. going back to retrieve...
...with a motor-revolution gauge a little to the right of where other cars have a radiator cap, outlined sharply against yellow sand. At one edge of your line of vision is a dark line made by a crowd of spectators and, on the other side, the flags 100 yd. apart marking your course. They go by like pickets in a fence. You feel the accelerator trembling against your foot because, although the sand looks smooth, there are ridges in it. Your head is pushed back against a leather cushion. You notice that the few seconds it takes to cover...
...morning that he had the 2,500 h.p. Blue Bird towed to the end of the course, 40 yd. wide and nine miles long with the measured mile in the centre, the sand was still rough and strewn with shells. Sir Malcolm's left wrist, sprained on the gearshift in a 240-m.p.h. trial spin last fortnight, was still sore. A thin dangerous haze had not entirely disappeared when Sir Malcolm decided he could wait no longer...
Robert Tyre Jones II, for whom Georgia has killed a great many fatted calves, last week opened a new golf course of his own planning, the Augusta National. The course-6,700 yd. from the back tees -was designed by Golf Architect Allister MacKenzie, with Jones's help. Intended to be the "ideal course" for both experts and dubs, it contained only 22 traps. Its appearance-rolling ground in a pleasant valley edged by pine trees-suggested that another Bobby Jones, Stage Designer Robert Edmond Jones, had done the settings. Jones escorted foursomes of new members and celebrities invited...
...Girl swimmers in a three-day meet sponsored by Henry L. Doherty's new Florida Year-Round Clubs, at the Miami-Biltmore pool: nine new national records. Record-breakers: minnowy Katherine Rawls of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (300 yd. medley, 300, 400 and 440 yd. breaststroke) ; pretty Lenore Kight of Homestead, Pa. (400 yd. and 500 metre free style) ; muscular Margaret Hoffman of Scranton, Pa. (200 yd., 220 yd. and 200 metre breast stroke, the last two simul-taneously...